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1 Neal R. Gross United States of America + + + + + Surface 1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + + + + SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD + + + + + HEARING + + + + + W444444444444444444444444444444444444444447 IN THE MATTER OF: 5 5 CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation, 5 STB Inc., Norfolk Southern Corporation and 5 Finance Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Control 5 Docket No. and Operating Leases/Agreements--Conrail 5 33388 Inc. and Consolidated Rail Corporation. 5 (Sub W444444444444444444444444444444444444444448 No. 91) 7th Floor Hearing Room Mercury Building 1925 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20423 Monday, May 3, 2004 The above-entitled matter came on for hearing pursuant to notice at 10:00 a.m., Roger Nober, Chairman, presiding. BEFORE: THE HONORABLE ROGER NOBER, Chairman NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 2 C O N T E N T S PAGE Introduction .................. 4 Panel I: Jim Hixon, Norfolk Southern ....... 8 David Goode, Norfolk Southern ...... 9 Peter J. Shudtz .............22 Michael Ward, CSX ............23 Panel II: The Hon. Scott L. King ..........62 John M. Whitlock .............71 RADM Richard M. Larrabee .........74 John Guinan ...............80 Paul Samuel Smith, Esq. .........89 Panel III: Donald W. Alexander .......... 110 Michael Scanlon ............ 112 Christopher T. Marsh .......... 117 John C. Gallaher ............ 119 Thomas E. Schick ............ 126 Panel IV: Kenneth Pramik ............. 136 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 3 C O N T E N T S PAGE Panel IV (Continued): Rob Clark ............... 140 Dennis Schaffer ............ 145 Jason B. Blinkoff ........... 148 Panel V: Gordon R. Fuller ............ 163 Jeffrey K. Stover ........... 167 Peter A. Gilbertson .......... 172 William S. Strawn, II ......... 177 NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 4 P R O C E E D I N G S (10:07 p.m.) CHAIRMAN NOBER: Well, good morning, everyone, and I apologize for being late. The hearing will come to order, and today the Surface Transportation Board is holding its second oversight hearing in Finance Docket No. 33388, CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation, Incorporated, Norfolk Southern Railway, and Norfolk Southern Railway Company, the control and operating and lease agreements for Conrail and the Conrail Consolidated Rail Corporation, which is, I think, bureaucrat-speak for saying we're holding our oversight hearing today in the Conrail transaction. In this proceeding, the Board approved the split of Conrail between CSX and Norfolk Southern Railroads, and as part of its approval of that transaction, the Board provided for a five-year period of oversight which is set to expire on June 1 of this year. As I mentioned, this is the second hearing in this proceeding. The first was held last month in NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 5 Trenton, New Jersey, and focused on the shared assets areas created in the transaction. And today's hearing will address the Conrail transaction more generally. Now, before we begin, I'd like to just make a couple of quick observations. It is interesting to me that these two hearings are most notable for the fact that they are being held at all, and as most of you know, since I became Chairman 18 months ago, I've worked hard to institute a more open and accessible process for resolving important matters, and the hearings that we're holding today are part of that effort. Now, any doubts I might have had about the decision to hold these hearings were settled last month when the Board held our field hearing in Trenton to look at the shared assets portion. Now, almost 25 witnesses testified, and these included carriers, state and local authorities in the region, customers, and short line partners of the railroads. I thought it was an interesting and especially productive hearing, one where I was able to better understand the operations and future of those NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 6 three unique areas. Now, it is also interesting that a large number of private citizens came and sat through all four and a half hours of the hearing, which I have to confess I was surprised about, and I hope they enjoyed it. Now, I am pleased that we have -- (Laughter.) CHAIRMAN NOBER: -- a similarly robust panel of witnesses at today's hearing. We will first be hearing from the railroads, both of whose CEOs are here, Michael Ward, the CEO of CSX, and David Goode from Norfolk Southern. I know that they are accompanied by their legal officers, and I thank both of you for taking time out of your busy schedules to join us today. I hoped the Board would have two new members for this hearing and that this would be the first hearing of our newly constituted three-person Board. Unfortunately, Mr. Mulvey and Mr. Buttrey have not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Now, there is hope that their long nomination and confirmation NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 7 process will be over soon and that while this is not the first meeting of the three-person Board, at least I am hopeful that it is the last meeting of myself as a two-person Board or as a one-person Board. Excuse me. (Laughter.) CHAIRMAN NOBER: And you'll hear during the hearing today referring to the Board many times in the royal "we." Before we get going, I'd also like to just mention a few housekeeping matters. First, I'm pleased to say that this is the first Board proceeding where our new streaming audio available on our Web site is going to simulcast the hearing live. So for anyone who is out there who wasn't able to make it and wants to listen, they're able to, and in addition the hearings are kept on. They're archived. So any of you who testified or may want to listen to this or are having trouble sleeping one night, you'll be able to sign on and listen to it, and I promise you it will all be there. Secondly, it's the last hearing we'll have NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 8 these bench pews, and for those of you who are regulars here, you may miss them, but we're going to do a renovation project and make the room more flexible. So starting next week we'll have a different look in here. And third, procedurally as we go forward, my general policy is I'd like everyone on the panel to testify first, and then we'll ask questions at the end. I ask everyone who has cell phones to please turn them off or turn them on vibrate. And, again, I appreciate all of the witnesses coming today. We look forward to the testimony, and I understand that the two CEOs need to leave soon after their panel. So I'm sorry about that, but we'll certainly try to accommodate your schedules as best we can. And with that I think I've probably spoken more than enough, and we can now turn to the first panel. MR. HIXON: Good morning, Chairman Nober. My name is Jim Hixon. I am the Senior Vice President, Legal and Government Affairs for Norfolk Southern NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 9 Corporation. On behalf of Norfolk Southern, we appreciate the opportunity to participate in the oversight process in these hearings. Presentations will begin with Mr. Goode, to be followed by Mr. Ward. Under the STB's procedures, Norfolk Southern will not reserve any time at the hearing to respond to other presenters. Rather, as we said at the Trenton hearing, we will respond with written comments later in the oversight process. Now it is my pleasure to present David R. Goode, the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Norfolk Southern Corporation. Mr. Goode. MR. GOODE: Thank you, Jim, and thank you, Chairman Nober, for the opportunity to present the views of Norfolk Southern at this hearing. As you noted earlier, we are nearing the end of the five-year formal oversight period. The Board set up this oversight period to insure that the conditions it imposed worked as intended and to determine whether the transaction resulted in any NEAL R. GROSS COURT REPORTERS AND TRANSCRIBERS 1323 RHODE ISLAND AVE., N.W. (202) 234-4433 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20005-3701 www.nealrgross.com 10 major competitive issues. In its decisions at the end of the first four years of oversight, the Board found then that the conditions have worked as intended. We believe that this continues to be the case. Accordingly, we recommend today that formal oversight should terminate as scheduled and should not be extended. And in that context, it may be useful just briefly to review the broad contours of the transaction going back to 1998 as it was approved. Before 1998, there were three major rail systems in the East: Norfolk Southern, CSX, and Conrail. Significantly though, while there was plenty of competition in the Southeast, most areas north of Maryland and east of Ohio were served by only one Class I railroad, and that was Conrail, with a few exceptions, and that was the case, had been the case for more than 20 years.
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